Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-09-30

teen feet. and find that three men can
roll one Of them from fifty tosone hum
dred feet in few hours II 1t il thought
best to change the location. A house
eight by sixteen feet will accommodate
from twelve to fifteen store hogs
through the winter, and Is large enough
to fatten ten large hogs in. The bill of
lumber for house Of this size built as
Idircct, is ~ follows:
FEET
Two sills, q by Q inches.s and feet long. 4s
Five joist, by 10 inches, and 10 feet long. ia
Floor and lining 80 xlu
-Four corner posts 4 by inches. "a
Plates and nail ties. 20
Nine raftars, ty inches, and feet long. ~
Siding. inch boards ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
shcathing ~ ~
Total amount Of lumber required. ......,. a5s
This. at 81. rs per 100 feet. will cost
&I6. rs, TO which add 1000 shingles at
1915. and 81 for nails ard hinges, and
Ii brings the total cost of material for
the house To s2I 49, The farmer. II he
will follow my directions. need not
employ carpenter to build such a
housc. and two hands can complete
one in two days or less.
After the foundation Is ready-which
may be locust posts set well in the
ground bowlders or masonry, If pre-
ferTod- place yonr short stills across
the ends and level them. and then set
the floor joists on the stills. 50 that the
two outside ones will come exactly to
the ends Of the sills Bridge the joist
In the center and then lay the floor.
A floor Of inch lumber. laid double, is
much better than one of two-inch
planks. and will cost less, for the lin
ing can be laid with cracks three OF
four inches wide.
After the floor Is laid. cut your posts
four and half feet high for the rear
and seven and half for tho front.
Saw them perfectly square at botl
ends. set them up at the corners, and
fasten them by what the carpenters
call aoe-nailing;o them spike 4 two
by four studding TO the tops. front anc
rear. For n plate, put up your two
end rafters. setting them exactly flush
with the stills, so that the weather
boarding will be nailed to the sill a
the bottom and the rafter at the top
You will Iii need one run Of nail-ties
which can be shiplapped to the posts
and when these are up you are read,
TO cover the building.
Use siding fourteen feet long cover
ing 1t, and It will cut one length 70
tho front and one for the rear. Tn
roof Of this house slopes but one way
and Ii Is best to have the front--o
high part Of the roof toward eithe
the west or south. II the roof is mad
to project little. and finish with
light cornice. II will present quite
good appearances.
Mako n good trough and fasten 1t s.
cureiy. / have never found any thin
better than good V-trough; tho frol
Of 1t should be Of two-inch lumber. b,
the back part, which comes against Il
side Of the building. may be inch.
is next to impossible to keep no,
clean, and tho house free from b.
odors, II they are confined TO sing
floor, but by making nm outside pc
with board floor. from twelve
eighteen inches lower than the feedir
floor. and keeping 1t always supple
with an absorbent, / have no Difficult
in keeping my Lighthouses from beeor
ing malodorous. So always raise Il
floor Of the main house, and then lay
floor of nearly the same size eth
at the rear or one end of the honse.
this floor need not be laid double
will take but 1928 feet of lumber to NAL
it. and ii can rest on any cheap o
scantlings thrown fiat on the ground I
mud sllls Enclose it with su
stantial fence. made without crack
aud furnish the hogs some old stra
or corn fodder as often as they requi
II, and they will enjoy working
over and will shred it up and ma
good manure of it sooner than a
other stock.
Every hog house of this siza shou
be provided with a movable partti
so that IL can be divided into two pal
when desired. as an apartment Gig
feet square is large enough for SO
to farrow in. Two short posts, /,
bt TOUR inches, can De set up. FRO
and rear. and just far enough apa
50 that an inch board can be dropp
between them. and three boards.
foot wide. viii make the partition.
prevent hogs from lifting them o,
bore half inch hole just above /
top board in one Of the posts, at en-
end. and put in stout pin. II tits d
sired to have room for corn above, u
longer posts, say twelve feet from t
front and nine for the rear. and u
two by six lumber for nail ties. Al
two by eight joist. crosswise of t
building, to support the upper fioe
This will give room. at very SIM
expense. to store about one hundr
bushels of corn above the hogs - "
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